The poem “The Lady’s Dressing Room” as written by Jonathan Swift; satirizes both men’s expectation and women’s vain efforts to match the ideal image towards men. The poem articulates this as the illusion that women put up in real life to be realistic in perfecting their images. Swift begins a vivid description of his mistress ideal image generally. However, not illustrated what triggered Strephon; the poem chronicles Strephon’s misadventure in his lover vacant dressing room. Strephon as he goes through the content of her room, he encounters repulsing objects in the room. These objects were: Continue reading...